TU tuesday: Discussion review

On Tuesday Kristi Gustafson Barlette came to our class to talk about her life and her job. Kristi stood up in front of our class and we held a conversation for a little more than an hour. Kristi seemed very comfortable with standing up and giving an oral presentation in front of our class. For Kristi's poise I say she did very well. She seemed, as I said before, very comfortable standing up in front of our class and talking. She carried out our conversation and seemed very interested in what we had to ask. She did not stutter at all and seemed very comfortable up in front of the class. For clarity Kristi also did a good job. She was very clear and spoke slowly enough so that we could clearly hear what she was saying. Kristi did use big words but not that much and she didn't use an excessive amount of them so that we understood what we were saying. In the Volume category Kristi did excellent. She spoke loudly and clearly and I was never bored by what she was saying. She kept me interested in the conversation. In the information part I feel like she could have done better. Kristi gave good details like when she was describing her time milking the cows but she gave a lot of fluff as well. She kind of clouded her points and made them kind of vague. She also gave a lot of unnecessary details that didn't add much to the conversation. With her organization I feel like Kristi did just OK again. At some points of the conversation I felt like she had superb organization and the conversation really worked but at other points she was bouncing around and I found her coming back to points that she had already talked about. I feel like as a class we did a very good job with the discussion. Our class easily held out the conversation for more than an hour with very few awkward breaks. Throughout the conversation I was attentively listening. I wanted to ask questions a few times but she changed the topic before I could ask it and other students asked the same question before I could. So I did not ask a question during the presentation but I very attentively listened. Overall I would say Kristi did a very good job with the presentation and I would recommend her for your next year class. She did a very good job and I feel she will keep your next class entertained as well.

TU Tuesday: bloger conversation

                                                        2 questions and 2 comments

Playing Dairy Queen for a Day:  
 Q: How many cows did you milk that day?
Q: Is it hard to milk a cow?
C: It seems fun to be able to milk a cow.
C: It seems like a very tiring process


Ringers To The Extreme:
Q: How do you feel about removing wedding bands?
Q:When do you find it acceptable to remove the band?
C: I find it cool that Ryan Fitzpatrick wears his band at all times.
C:I feel it is OK to remove your wedding band.


Resistance can be useful:
 Q: Do you feel like Steve Barnes shaped who you are as a writer today?
Q: What place is your blog in now?
C: You made something out of nothing
C:You have an inspiring story

What I Am Thankful Four

Opinion Blog

Opinion Prompt 6. We should have a king instead of a president.

I strongly disagree with this statement. If we didn't have a king we simply wouldn't have liberty. The way that our government works now, in my opinion, is perfect. If we had a king then he would be able to make any law he wants. And you can argue for a constitutional Monarchy but we saw how that worked in early Europe and we saw that it rarely works. Even with a parliament and a king the king can still find a way to side step parliament and get what he wants. With the president now his power is "checked' with our system of checks and balances. This has proved to work very well and still to this day works. Also if we had a king we would lose our democracy. After all we wouldn't be the greatest nation in the world without democracy and if we had a king we wouldn't have a democracy so what would we be? Just an average country! With a king we would be useless and with a president we are everything!

Write about the last time you wore high heels or a necktie.

Oh man, it’s a real rarity for me to wear a necktie and I can only remember wearing one two or three times but the last time I wore one was the beginning of this year. I wore it during what had to be the first week of school. I wore it because our cross country team was dressing up in honor of the 41st Guilderland Invy that was taking place that Saturday. Oh man I remember I wore a dress shirt with a tie and shorts. It was surprisingly comfy and I really didn't mind wearing it. Then that Saturday we actually had the invy. It was a blast up to the point where I had to race. And for those of you who have never stepped up to a starting line with a few seconds till the starting gun goes off, and have never experienced the terrible, terrible feeling that you get in your stomach, consider yourself lucky. I was extremely pumped for the race and that really ended up costing me. I had a terrible race and I was very upset with it. I could barely breathe and I placed very poorly. But during the season I rebounded really nicely and I ended up being one of the top 10 runner on the team and being able to run at sectionals. I really consider my season a success and I think I it might be able to be tracked back to that day when I wore my tie.

Magnetic Poetry: Young Boy

Q=Quito

I have never been to Quito before but it seems like a very cool place to go. There seems to be a lot of stuff to do there and it all seems fun. If I was to go there I would like to do these seven things:

Info taken directly from:

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g294308-Activities-Quito.html

1. Visit the Ride Andes stables. I have never rode a horse before and it seems like a very fun thing to do. And since it is so easily gotten to I would very much like to go to the Ride Andes stables and ride a horse.  It will also be awesome to ride in the famous Andes with some very well trained horse 

2. Go to the Museo Manuela Saenz. This is a museum that has a lot of Manuela Saenz artifacts. It contains her paintings, stamps and even some personal things of Manuela. This seems like a very interesting museum and it would be fun to learn about the life of Manuela.

3. Visit the Basilica. This is considered to be the largest church in Quito. Even though I am not religious this seems like a very interesting place to visit. The Basilica features fine bronze doors, colorful stained glass windows and a tower with sweeping views of the city. This sounds like a very fun place to see.

4. Go to the old town in Quito. This is a part of Quito that seems very interesting. This historic district was the first city named a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is noted for its narrow streets, Spanish colonial architecture and historic attractions. All these factors make going to the old town seem like a very fun trip.

5. Another thing that I would like to do would be to go on the Teleferico Quito. This is a cable car that will take you up onto a mountain were as some reviewers say; "the view of the Quito valley is... well, breathtaking. The best way to get the lay of the land from above" That reviews in of itself makes me want to go on this ride and it makes it seem very fun.

6. Another place that I would like to visit is the San Fransisco Plaza. This plaza once served as a lively 

 Commercial center during pre-Columbian times, this large cobbled square is dominated by the enormous Iglesia de San Francisco and the monastery of the same name. This seems like a very interesting place to visit and would be up there on places that I would like to visit while in Quito. 

7. The last but not least thing that I would do in Quito would be to go to the Maquipucuna Cloud Forest Reserve. This is the closest rainforest to Quito and it seems well worth the long drive. Maquipucuna 

measures more than 6,000 hectares (15,000 acres) containing more than 375 species of birds, 45 species of mammals, 250 species of butterflies, and 1000 species of moths - amongst other species... In addition to hosting more than 2,000 species of plants, Maquipucuna harbors 4% of the world's bird diversity. These are some pretty impressive stats that make me want to go to this rainforest.

After looking at all the great things Quito has to offer I would love to go there. I never really thought of Quito as a major place to go to but after doing this blog it really opened me up to Quito. There is tons of really interesting things to do there and I would really love to go there. 

Proverb Blog

A man comes from the dust and in the dust he will end - and in the meantime it is good to drink a sip of vodka

This is a really good proverb in my opinion. The meaning of the proverb is that you are born and you die, so you might as well have fun when you are living. This is a very good meaning. You are born and you will eventually die no matter what you do so have some fun. So with the fact that you are going to die in your mind you should have fun. You can’t live in fear of dying. You have to learn to embrace death as a friend not an enemy and learn to live with it.  One good example of people who live by this proverb is extreme athletes. They constantly risk their own lives by doing what they do but they do it anyway. They have accepted death and choose to have fun while they are living. Even though I don't agree with the extreme athletics that these people do I feel like they have the right idea in life. The idea that you need to have fun. All in all I feel like the proverb that I choose really signifies this point and that is why I choose it.